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Cars and Guides
• We used air-conditioned luxury KIAs for 5 persons and Mercedes or Pullman Volkswagen Caravelle Van for up to 8 passengersFor couples we can provide on request prestige sednas like Peugot 607 or equivalent.
We offer 3 private guided options in Paris.
1. Nationally licensed guide/drivers and will pick you up and drop you off from your accommodation.
2. Expert guides who do walking tours around the subjects of History, Museums, Neighborhoods, Cooking, Gourmet, Wine, and Photography.
3. Local guide and driverss who are familiar with Paris but not allowed to escort you into national monuments.
•Prices include transport, insurance, tolls, parking, and the services of a nationally licensed driver/Guide-interpreter (English, French, Italian, German, Russian and Spanish).
•Prices do not include (unless specificed) entrance tickets to the museums, gardens and monuments(except when mentioned for our VIP tours)
Reviews
Once again I want to thank you for arranging our tour at the last minute. I am afraid that without your help our family trip to Paris would have been greatly diminished and certainly not nearly as educational.
Although we enjoyed the tours of the two flea markets, I wanted to write to you regarding Angelo. Our three days with Angelo were marvelous and his attention to detail, knowledge and ability to entertain my wife, myself and our four children was remarkable. We feel truly blessed to have him as our guide over these days and wanted to let you know how happy we were with both his services and his warm personality and professionalism.
From the time we first met him we knew he was special and our time with him in Paris would be exceptional. While we will certainly tell everyone we know how wonderful of a guide he was, I wanted to let you know as well just how pleased we were with his services.
Again we appreciate everything you did in arranging our last minute trip once our original guide fell ill. Without your help, knowledge and expertise our trip would not be nearly as memorable as it was. I look forward to working with you on our trip to Italy next year and will stay in touch. DW
Larry,
Just wanted to thank YOU and the companies that you sub-contract to for the excellent
service and on-time pickups while in Paris. The transfer from Paris Est to CDG went
very well and the driver/owner was excellent. I will not hesitate to recommend Manstouch
to my friends contemplating trips to Paris and environs.
I hope to utilize your services in the next year as well and maybe spend a longer time in Paris.
Damn was it hot temperature wise as other ways too! Thanks again. TV
Secret Paris
The Real Paris
While Paris is filled with magnificent monuments and fascinating landmarks, it also boasts hidden gems, that the locals treasure for their charm and beauty.
If you want to discover these spectacular sites then Show Me the Real Paris Private Guided Tours are just for you.
As you enter Rome you immediately feel you are reliving ancient history. for a first time visit you will want to visit the Vatican museum, Borghese Gallery Tivoli, the Castelli Romani nearby or further afield around the Amalfi Coast in the South or Orvieto and Florence in the North.
We offer private guided day tours, wine tastings, cooking classes and much more from a great teal of local guides and experts.
Private Guides Paris
Experience Paris specializes in private guided day tours in Paris and locations, which can be reached in a day from as far away as Lyon to the south and London to the North.
Our tour guides are Nationally Licensed and can escort you into any national monument or museums. Selected guides are also certified to drive, which save the cost of a second person and they will generally be driving a comfortable minivan like a Mercedes Viano or Volkswagen Caravelle, which we find is more comfortable for touring than a sedan.
We also offer a range of tours on foot, which are led by guides who are experts in specific areas like photography, cooking, wine, vintage clothing, perfume and more.
The more you tell us about what you like and dislike the better we can plan a memorable day for you.
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Paris City Tours
Private paris by car with a licensed guide / driver allow you to see more of the city. These are the basic itineraries but they can be changed if you wish - even on en route.
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Classic Half Day Panorama Tours by Car
Overview of the most spectacular and renowned sites of Paris: Opera Garnier, Place Vendôme, Louvre, Ile de la Cité (stop), Notre-Dame (guided visit), Marais District, Place des Vosges, Ile St Louis, Left Bank, Pantheon, Luxembourg Garden, St Germain, Orsay, Concorde square, Champs Elysées, Grand Palais, Invalides, Ecole Militaire, Eiffel Tower, Trocadero, Arc de Triomphe and stop for a walking tour in Montmartre.
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French Market & Gourmet Tour
Paris Panorama + Dinner at the Eiffel Tower
Art Morning at the Louvre & Montmartre
Full Day Great Monuments Tour by Car
Visit of the most spectacular and renowned historical sites of Paris as well as a few "special" spots : Opera Garnier, Place Vendôme, Louvre, Church Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, Ile de la Cité (walking tour), Notre-Dame (guided visit), Conciergerie, Sainte Chapelle, Marais District, Hotel de Soubise, Hotel Carnavalet, Place des Vosges (stop), Hotel de Sully (visit), Ile St Louis, Hotel de Lauzun, Left Bank, Panthéon, Church Saint Etienne du Mont (visit), Luxembourg Garden, Church Saint Sulpice, Saint Germain, Cafe Procope, Orsay Museum, Concorde square, La Madeleine, Champs Elysées, Grand Palais, Alexander III bridge, Les Invalides, Ecole Militaire, Eiffel Tower, Palais Chaillot, Trocadero (stop), Arc de Triomphe, Montmartre (walking tour).
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Great Monuments + Seine Cruise
Great Monuments + Louvre
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Royal Versailles Tour
The Chateau and Gardens of Versailles is one of the most prestigious UNESCO World Heritage Site. No first time trip to Paris is complete without it a visit here. Can be combined with Chartres, Vaux le Vicomte & Giverny
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Half Day Tour - 4hrs :
After pick up at your Paris accommodation, your private guide will give you an introduction to the history of Versailles. You will have a personally guided visit of the chateau (Grands Apartments). Visit of the Parc ( stop at the Grand Canal), the Grand Trianon (stop), the Petit Trianon and the hamlet of the Queen Marie-Antoinette. Visit of the gardens.
Full Day Options - 8hrs :
Option 1 - Trianon and Marie-Antoinette's Hameau
Lunch followed by a visit of the Gardens and the Groves (Ball Room, Colonnade, Encelade, Bath of Apollo , Arc de Triomphe, Neptune etc). Followed by a visit to the Grand Trianon (visit), Petit Trianon (visit) and Hamlet of the Queen Marie-Antoinette (visit).
a. Biking in the Gardens available on request.
b. Horse practice show in the Royal Stables.
Option 2 - Chartres
After a hour's drive on the highway, take a religious journey to visit the Chartres Cathedral, the archetype of Gothic Architecture, a classified Unesco Heritage monument with its amazing blue stained glass windows, the crypt, the labyrinth and the famous towers. Your driver guide will initiate you in the fine art of reading Biblical stories depicted in stained glass and point out the details that make Chartres the textbook example of High Gothic Architecture , a sermon in glass and stone. After the visit of the cathedral, the guide will take you to a walk through the old town, draped on the side of a hill leading down to the river where you will make a stop for coffee (or tea) with a very nice local pastry. (Possible visit of the Maison Picassiette, built in mosaic out of everyday objects, a great example of Naive Art)
Option 3 - Giverny
A lovely contrast to Royal opulence and decadence, is a visit to the home and gardens of Monet's Home in Giverny. While driving you along the Seine river valley to the village in Normandy where Claude Monet lived from 1883 to 1926, your guide will retrace the painter's life and his sources of inspiration. You will then visit his house and studio and the gardens he created as a subject for his paintings. See the ponds and the Japanese bridges built with a lock on the tiny Epte river for the Water Lilies series. Drive back on a scenic road overlooking the Seine river valley and cross beautiful landscape and charming villages.
Option 3 - Vaux le Vicomte
For those who love Royal intrigue, a visit to Vaux will show you the progression of style from Vaux to Versailles by the artists who built both and the jealousy of a King which fueled it.
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Monet's Home in Giverny
Requite your passion for Impressionist art in Monet's famous home and gardens in Giverny, If you have time take the day and visit the famous Cathedrals he painted in Rouen and the Musee des Beaux Arts.
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Half Day Tour - 5hrs :
On the way from Paris, introduction to the life and work of Claude Monet. Guided visit of the Gardens and house of Monet. Coffee and cake at the café Baudy (the residence of so many American painters, Whistler, Metcalf, Robinson, Sargent, Mary Cassatt as well as Renoir and Cezanne)
On your return, you will drive along the Route des Crêtes where you enjoy an exceptional panorama over the Seine valley, you will see a watchtower of the 9th Century built at the time of the Viking's Invasion, the chateau of La Roche Guyon that became Erwin Rommel's headquarter during World War II, the village of Vetheuil where Monet spent the 3 hardest years of his life, Mantes la Jolie and its 12th Century gothic cathedral, before reaching the highway back to Paris.
Option 1 - Rouen
A driver further North for about an 1hr and you reach Rouen. A fabulous city and home to 2 very interesting museums, half timbered houses, the site of Joan of Arc's execution, one of the oldest restaurants in France and the cathedral that Monet immortalized.
Option 2 - Chateau de Versailles
After lunch in a famous cafe in Giverny, you will have a personally guided visit of the chateau's Grands Apartments and short visit of the gardens.
Option 3 - Auvers sur Oise
Now that you have visited the heart of impressionism its time to see the final home of Van Gogh and the post impressionist.
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Champagne
During our tours we present the entire process of creating the magic that is Champagne, the legends, traditions and culture behind it. We visit both large and small producers and arrange tastings which show you the difference between either regions, specific producers or grape varieties.
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Tours departing Paris
Option 1 Grand Tour - Reims & Epernay
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A 10 hour tour which includes tours and tastings in 2 large prestigious cellars and a tastings in Hautvilliers to pay a tribute to Dom Perignon. En route you visit the spectacular gothic cathedral of Reims where the kings of France were crowned and if time you will see the 25 meter high statue of Pope Urban II
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Le Mont St Michel
Pilgrims have been coming here for a thousand years, and today's tourist follow the same narrow walkway to the Abbey. Join us on a magical journey.
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Le Mont St Michel - Long Day Tour
You driver will pick you up early and you head through Normandy to the ramparted Gothic monastery of Le Mont Saint Michel. Surrounded by dangerous moving sands, linked to the mainland by a dike, this "Marvel of the Occident" is unique in the world.
Your private guide will take you into the Abbey, which built on a rocky islet, and which was principally a major cultural and pilgrimage centre during the middle ages. You will have time time to wanted the narrow streets before lunch. After lunch you have a choice of visiting the lovely Dinan or Rennes or the castle at Fougeres
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D Day Landing Beaches
Beyond the Orne are the Landing Beaches of World War II, the 'Mother-of-Pearl' coast and the Cotentin peninsula. Allied forces landed on the coast of Calvados and Manche, D-Day, 6 June 1944. 2004 was the 60th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings and many events were organized to commemorate the event.
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D-Day Beaches - Long Day Tour
A visit to the Landing Beaches is a moving experience. After a long driver you start the day at Arromanches to visit the remains of the artificial harbour and if you wish watch the documentary, "the Price of Freedom", at a 360 degree movie theater. Then on to Longues sur Mer to see the canons and bunkers of Longues before lunch in Port en Bessin
After lunch you will visit the American Cemetery at Colleville, then drive to Omaha beach to see the remains of the German bunkers.
The day ends at Pointe du Hoc, visually the most impressive spot of the Landing Beaches before returning to Paris.
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Chateaux of the Loire
Discover the great Chateaux of the Loire Valley departing from Paris or the city of Tours & Amboise. Or for those interested in wine we will stop for a wine tasting or can even provide a full day of vineyard visit and wine tasting to discover the wide range of wines produced in the Garden of France.
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Loire Castles & Wine - Long Day Tour
Its a long drive to the Loire so it is an early pick up at your hotel or apartment. We then drive along the Loire towards Chenonceau for a guided visit of the "château of the Dames" followed by an optional wine tasting close to Amboise.
After lunch a guided visit of Clos Luce the last residence of Leonardo da Vinci and the gardens where the inventions of this genius are displayed. or a visit of Amboise Castle symbol of a new style of architecture: the French Renaissance.
On the way back to Chambord, François I's dream château (the largest château in France before the Palace of Versailles was built) to see Leonardo de Vinci's double spiral staircase and the exceptional top floor terrace.
Return to Paris (arrival around 19h00)
Other itineraries including wine tastings are possible.
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Chateau Chantilly
Chantilly Chateau and its famous Condé Museum is France’s leading private picture collection and second-leading collection of classical paintings after the Louvre. Renowned as one of the finest in the world is the Grand Stables which houses the Living Museum of the Horse where you can watch a horseshow every afternoon.
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Option 1 - Chantilly - Afternoon Tour
The castle's history is long and impressive. Among its former residents were the enormously wealthy High Constable Anne de Montmorency (chief minister to Francis I and Henry II), and the Grand Conde, a military genius who hosted Louis XIV for a three-day feast and theatrical in 1671 that was dramatized in the film Vatel starring Uma Thurman and Gerard Depardieu.
Not only does Chantilly boast furniture that was once commissioned by Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI, but also almost 1,000 Old Master paintings. The living horse museum is harbored in the world's most beautiful stables. The Grand Stables of the Princes de Condee, architectural master piece of the XVIIIth century, is situated on a unique site, facing the Chateau on one side and the hippodrome on the other. You can visit these, see the horses and even a horse show.
Option 2 - Chantilly & Senlis or Medieval Abbeys - Full Day Tour
En route to Chantilly, you can visit Senlis is an exquisite little town, with narrow cobbled streets, ancient buildings and beautiful churches
The old town is a preserved area, where efforts have been made to preserve and restore the built heritage, some buildings dating back to the XIIth century. A number of films and costume dramas have been shot here.
Lunch in Senlis or Chateau near Chantilly before your afternoon visit.
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Vaux le Vicomte & Fontainbleau
Discover the splendors created by Le Vau, Le Brun and Le Nôtre for the Finance Steward Nicolas Fouquet, who gave Louis XIV the idea to build Versailles, and at the same time who was punished for its insolence. That anyone other than his royal self could own such a splendor could not be tolerated by the Sun King.
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Vaux, Barbizon, Fontainebleau - Full Day
A visit to Vaux le Vicomte is often combined with Chateau Fontainebleau and if time Barbizon for those interest in art. Both Chateaux are magnificent and both hold a unique charm and are somewhat more manageable than the grand and busy Versailles. Given time you can also visit the quaint village of Barbizon, by the
Fontainebleau Forest and painted by Impressionist painters.
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